National Beef Packing Company
National Beef Packing Company, LLC, is America’s Premier Beef Company® Since National Beef® opened the doors to our first processing plant in 1992, we have forged alliances and partnerships with the best American ranchers. We are a preferred employer in our communities and recognized as an innovator in value-added beef. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, we have production facilities and operations in eight locations in six states and employ over 9,100. We have international offices in Chicago, Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong Kong. We process and market fresh beef, consumer-ready products and beef by-products. Our focus is the expansion of our value-added business, including branded boxed beef, consumer-ready products, portion control direct-to-consumer products and wet blue leather to meet the growing needs of the marketplace. Our flagship processing and fabrication plants in Dodge City and Liberal, Kansas are two of the largest in America, along with our Tama, Iowa facility, process millions of pounds of fresh beef, ground beef and beef byproducts for our customers across the food industry each week. Further processing production facilities in Hummels Wharf, Pennsylvania, Moultrie, Georgia and North Baltimore, Ohio produce consumer-ready beef, pork and ground beef products in a variety of packaging formats for retailers. Our portion-control steak cutting facility in Kansas City, Kansas serves the food service industry with high-quality steaks. National Beef Leathers LLC, based in St. Joseph, Missouri, is the largest, most technologically advanced wet blue leather facility in the world, serving further processors in the auto, handbag, footwear and furniture industries. National Carriers is our transportation company, offering refrigerated, livestock and logistical services. We provide our employees with the materials, equipment and training to be successful. We embrace a spirit of volunteerism and partner with many local organizations in the communities we serve.www.nationalbeef.com
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Oct 4, 2026
KathyNARRATOR
Don't do this.
KathyNARRATOR
Around a quarter of the country's beef production comes from major slaughterhouses in the area, which are owned by National Beef, Tyson Foods, and Cargill, and employ more than 10,000 people.
KathyNARRATOR
Tyson's and Cargill did not respond to a request for comment.
KathyNARRATOR
A spokesman for National Beef said the company was committed to doing business the right way and was providing legally appropriate cooperation and attempting to work through this process with the Department of Homeland Security in an orderly way.
KathyNARRATOR
You are listening to a reading of articles and features from the front section of the New York Times on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.
KathyNARRATOR
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KathyNARRATOR
Don't do this.
KathyNARRATOR
Around a quarter of the country's beef production comes from major slaughterhouses in the area, which are owned by National Beef, Tyson Foods, and Cargill, and employ more than 10,000 people.
KathyNARRATOR
Tyson's and Cargill did not respond to a request for comment.
KathyNARRATOR
A spokesman for National Beef said the company was committed to doing business the right way and was providing legally appropriate cooperation and attempting to work through this process with the Department of Homeland Security in an orderly way.
KathyNARRATOR
You are listening to a reading of articles and features from the front section of the New York Times on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.
KathyNARRATOR
Zombified CDC Strains to Meet Scientific Mission Independence Crumbles in Kennedy's Grip as Workforce Contracts by 30% by Apoorva Mandavili For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the undisputed global leader in public health.
Carter JohnsonGUEST
Box beef is what the major packers sell.
Carter JohnsonGUEST
So Cargill, Tyson, National Beef, those guys are selling box beef, so they're-
Tucker BrownHOST
So like a Benny Keith or...
Carter JohnsonGUEST
Well, those are the broadliners, the distributors.
Tucker BrownHOST
Yeah.
Carter JohnsonGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Carter JohnsonGUEST
They sell the beef from National Beef-
Tucker BrownHOST
They sell that box beef
Hailey BickelhauptHOST
Now, between those three cities, there are four major plants.
Hailey BickelhauptHOST
National Beef, Cargill, and Tyson did not respond to inquiries about shift delays or reduced harvest numbers.
Hailey BickelhauptHOST
However, it does appear to be reflected in USDA's daily cattle harvest numbers.
Hailey BickelhauptHOST
Last Thursday, 90,000 head were harvested, and that same day last year, there were more than 115,000 head harvested.
Steven CrowderHOST
It makes sense.
Steven CrowderHOST
Here's actually what, uh, National Beef's parking lot in, uh, Kansas looked like yesterday.
Steven CrowderHOST
Bring that up.
Steven CrowderHOST
There you go, completely empty.
Joel SalatinHOST
The, the, the reason, the reason things are...
Joel SalatinHOST
You know, wh- when this first came out, Sena, uh, a couple of weeks ago, I, I did a blog, um, saying that whatever comes out of this initial little, you know, uh, X thing that Trump, uh, tweeted about wanting to help, I said, "Whatever comes out of that, when it actually gets written, there will be a representative from JBS, Tyson, Cargill, and National Beef, the big four, there will be a, there will be a representative from each of those companies sitting at the table with Secretary Brooke Rollins writing the, the actual implementation.
Joel SalatinHOST
What does this executive order actually do?"
Sina McCulloughHOST
That's right.
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Sina McCulloughHOST
Ooh.
Joel SalatinHOST
There you go.
Joel SalatinHOST
And then the other of the four big ones, which is the smallest of the four, but the other one of the big four is National Beef, and, uh, and they own, uh, Black Canyon, Est.
Joel SalatinHOST
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